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When the lakes were frozen last week, you might have heard a “whit, whit” kind
of sound, as if a boy were bouncing a stone across the ice. It might have
been that — but it might also have been a nuthatch calling. That is the
nuthatch’s commonest call, and it comes down from treetops where the bird is
walking up — or even down — the trunk or branches looking for food. It is a
small bird and hard to make out, even when there are no leaves, but it flits
about a lot, and once you have spotted it you can